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As Pakistan looks to flood recovery, support for women and children is key
Pakistan’s 2022 monsoon season produced significant rainfall, devastating floods and landslides, affecting millions of people. At the beginning of 2023 and several...
Lone Survivors
As many other disasters and crises, the Pakistan floods have had a disproportionate impact on women and young girls. Deep-rooted gender inequality,...
Kasturi; the Man of her Family
In 2021, the drought killed their three-acre crop and with it their hopes for food on their plates. But Kasturi and her husband...
After the flood: still rebuilding amid uncertainty
Shehdev of village Veri Sal Sarety lying 6 kilometres southwest of Umerkot, the second youngest of seven brothers is a bachelor while...
Eight million displaced communities in need of food, shelter, water and health assistance
The death toll from the Pakistan floods is now recorded at 1,700, with over 33 million people affected. Quoted as the ‘tenth...
Meeting Vadhri’s immediate food and nutrition needs
Twenty-five year-old Vadhri of Rohiraro rarely leaves home. Even though her village is just sixty kilometres southeast of Umerkot, she has not...
Pakistan Flood Response Learning Series: Warranting Quality and Accountability
Community World Service Asia has launched a virtual learning series focusing on promoting quality and accountability (Q&A) and facilitate humanitarian organisations responding...
Enabling development aid professionals to efficiently manage project operations and resources
The importance of project management in organisations cannot be overstated. When it is done right, it helps every part of the organisation...
Strengthening local capacities to ensure Quality Aid and Accountability to affected people
Local and national non-profit organisations and Disaster Management Authorities (DMAs) are most often the first responders to a disaster, besides communities themselves....
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